Community manager Brian Jarrard said that although it has an internal team dedicated to content in the short term, it plans to eventually hand over duties to Halo studio 343 Industries.

"Well, [post-release support is] certainly something that we take really seriously. We don't want to just put three years into our game just to watch it wither on the vine, so to speak, and have our fans have a bad experience," he told DS.

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"While it's true it's our last Halo game, and we plan to transition into a new project, we do have a group of people and part of our team that is devoted to post-launch support for Reach, in addition to the community at large.

"I will tell you that inevitably it will come to a time when that sort of transition will have to occur, and people at 343 Industries will probably take the reins, but we haven't got far enough to sort out when and how that transition will occur, but suffice to say at the end of the day [it's] both sides' first priority to make sure that the game experience and the fan experience doesn't suffer at all."

Bungie recently signed a ten-year publishing deal with Activision, paving the way for other studios to work on the Halo franchise.

Halo: Reach will be released exclusively for Xbox 360 on September 14.